Todd Haynes Quotes

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.